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2011 PEN Awards: The Lit Mags

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Posted on August 11th, 2011 at 10:09 pm

The 2011 PEN Literary Awards were announced this week. Here are the lit mag relevant awards—congratulations to all:

PEN/Nora Magid Award ($5,000): To a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have contributed significantly to the excellence of the publication he or she edits. Judges: Lan Samantha Chang, Willing Davidson, and Jane Smiley.

Winner
Brigid Hughes, Founding Editor of A Public Space


PEN Emerging Writers Awards ($1,660): One award each to an up-and-coming fiction writer, nonfiction writer, and poet who has been published in a distinguished literary journal, but who has yet to publish a book-length work. Awards presented for the first time in 2011. Judges for the inaugural awards: Reif Larsen, David Lehman, and Robin Romm.
Fiction
Winner
Smith Henderson (nominated by Hannah Tinti of One Story)

Runner Up
Elliott Holt (nominated by Joel Whitney of Guernica)

Nonfiction
Winner
David Stuart MacLean (nominated by Ladette Randolph of Ploughshares)

Runner Up
Chester Phillips (nominated by Hattie Fletcher of Creative Nonfiction)

Poetry
Winner
Adam Day (nominated by Erica Wright of Guernica)

Runner Up
Brett Fletcher Lauer (nominated by Robert Casper of jubilat)

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